DECEMBER 8, 2010
Elizabeth Edwards, RIP. The last several years she was on this earth, her husband managed to make her life gossip headlines. She deserved better. Perhaps she has it now.
A judge in California has voided a marital settlement agreement between Frank McCourt and Jaimie McCourt. This leaves the ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers still to be decided in one of the most expensive divorces in California history. A good pre-nuptial agreement could have avoided this. A good post-nuptial agreement could have helped. I can see a few lawyers in California checking with their malpractice carrier today, expecting to be sued by Frank McCourt. He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that will quit fighting. He has fought his wife for years. I do not think it will bother him to sue a few lawyers after he loses, hoping to win by attrition.
Imagine if there were no heaven. Imagine if there were no John Lennon. In 1980, Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon outside his apartment building in New York City. John Lennon was 40.
December 8, 1980 was a Monday. The killing occurred during Monday Night Football. I remember sitting at a bar in Bloomington, IL and hearing Howard Cosell, in his monotone, slow voice announce John Lennon had been shot. He added he arrived at the hospital DOA.
As Wikipedia reports:
At around 10:50 pm on 8 December 1980, as Lennon and Ono returned to their New York apartment in The Dakota, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times at the entrance to the building. Lennon was taken to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:07 pm.[122] Earlier that evening, Lennon had autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for Chapman.[123]Ono issued a statement the next day, saying "There is no funeral for John," ending it with the words, "John loved and prayed for the human race. Please pray the same for him."[124] His body was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Ono scattered his ashes in New York's Central Park, where the Strawberry Fields memorial was later created.[125] Chapman pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life; as of 2010, he remains in prison, having been repeatedly denied parole.[126][127]
This is another example of a wasted, useless person ruining something good, beautiful and decent in the world for everyone else. I was never a big John Lennon fan. He was not my favorite Beatle but he was probably the most talented. Much of his work gets better with time and my advancement in years.
“Give Peace a Chance” is a fine song. “Imagine” is even better;
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
JOHN LENNON
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